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Here’s some footage of Professor Stephen Hawking enjoying a flight on the ‘vomit comet’.

Having changed from a Sony Ericsson k750i to a Nokia 6300, I was amazed that the Nokia did not support the wholesale copying of my phonebook by Bluetooth, so I had to find another way round. This was to set up a temporary account on my Mac and use iSync to synchronise the two bluetooth […]

If you are looking for information on opening the USB cover, see this post.
My Sony Ericsson k750i started playing up recently: locking up requiring a battery removal to reset, but then continuously vibrating on switch on, or going very slow, not responding to key presses, so I decided it was time for a change.
The question […]

You may remember that BT managed to foul up the take-over of an existing line when we moved in January.
Well now we have started to receive calls for a decorating firm. The first couple were taken by the answering machine, so we ignored them as wrong numbers, but I spoke to one lady last week.
“You’ve […]

Apparently, researchers have identified a ‘fat gene’ which, if you have it, makes you prone to carrying more weight.
As soon as this research comes out, breakfast TV drags up a host of clearly morbidly obese people, with statements like “I always knew there was something stopping me losing weight”.
Errr… hang on a minute. The research […]

One of the funniest videos that I’ve seen on YouTube for a while.

The problem
You have a cell in Excel which you’ve got formatted just the way you want it. Then along comes another user and pastes data into that cell; unfortunately, that’s not all that gets pasted, the formatting gets changed too. Now if you were pasting it, you could have avoided this by using ‘paste special…’ […]

Don’t know which version of Microsoft Windows Vista to choose? Take a look at JoyOfTech’s recommendation.

I’ve just seen a laughable web advert for Chevrolet cars, proudly claiming “Chevy offers 8 models with 30mpg highway or better. Fuel efficiency with a choice at chevy.com”
Now firstly, a little translation: 30mpg (US gallons) is 36mpg (imperial gallons) or 7.8 litres/100km.
It just shows how Americans view fuel efficiency if they think that 36mpg is […]